Leslie Levy

The UC system spent more than $3.7 million on sexual harassment payouts during the past three years, as first reported by the Sacramento Bee.

The University of California has paid out about $3.4 million in sexual harassment claim settlements in the past three years, according to a recent report by the Sacramento Bee.

The UC Board of Regents has reached a settlement to avoid tenure proceedings against former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry and has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Tyann Sorrell, who served as Choudhry's executive assistant.

The UC Berkeley School of Law has dropped four ranks since last year in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Law School” rankings released Tuesday.

UC Santa Cruz alumna Luz Portillo first heard about the release of 113 UC sexual misconduct documents on her Facebook feed. One of the cases was her own.

The release of documents Tuesday showing more than 100 cases of UC sexual misconduct policy violations systemwide disturbed many, but surprised few.

Tyann Sorrell said her decision to return was a protest against the campus’s oversight of her sexual misconduct case and an affirmation to herself and other victims of the right to work in a workplace free of sexual harassment and assault.

The students, Nefertiti Takla and Kristen Glasgow, alleged that they were repeatedly sexually harassed by UCLA history professor Gabriel Piterberg in a lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents in June 2015.

About 40 students and community members gathered on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday afternoon and later marched through the Berkeley Law campus protesting Choudhry’s return, as well as the publication of an open letter written by Choudhry and published in The Daily Californian’s opinion section Tuesday.